@vxo @froge @pluralistic @k SERIOUSLY, WTF!?

• #ForProfitHealthcare needs to be outlawed!

During the public debate surrounding the slaying of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson, many Very Serious People TM insisted that it was hyperbolic to say United Health and medical insurance companies like it, were themselves in the business of murdering Americans for profit. While obviously their denials were disingenuous on a structural level in a society where providing (or not providing) access to life-saving medical care is one of the most profitable industries in the US economy, but as it turns out they were flat out wrong in a literal sense too. How do we know? Because recent investigations into UnitedHealth management practices show the company was straight up bribing nursing homes to deny their customers hospital care and pressure elderly residents to sign "do not resuscitate" orders; even if they wanted to use the coverage they paid for to you know, not die.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/21/unitedhealth-nursing-homes-payments-hospital-transfers

Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers

"The secret bonuses were just one of many maneuvers UnitedHealth devised to track and cut expenses in its nursing home initiative.

Internal emails show, for example, that UnitedHealth supervisors gave their teams “budgets” showing how many hospital admissions they had “left” to use up on nursing home patients.

The company also monitored nursing homes that had smaller numbers of patients with “do not resuscitate” – or DNR – and “do not intubate” orders in their files. Without such orders, patients are in line for certain life-saving treatments that might lead to costly hospital stays.

Two current and three former UnitedHealth nurse practitioners told the Guardian that UnitedHealth managers pressed nurse practitioners to persuade Medicare Advantage members to change their “code status” to DNR even when patients had clearly expressed a desire that all available treatments be used to keep them alive."

So, there's a term for a situation when you just let someone in a medical emergency die because its more profitable for your company, and that term is "homicidal negligence." Which itself, is a fancy way of describing what any normal person would call murder. If you or I were caught doing this kinda shit at our (hypothetical, I assure you) Airbnb rental property, we'd be going to jail for a long fucking time. Because UnitedHealth is a giant corporation, worth hundreds of billions of dollars, and has enough lobbyists to ensure no US Senator ever dines alone again however, it's just "efficient business operations" in the eyes of many free market fundamentalists and investor class sociopaths. Folks, they literally gamified a plot to enlist nursing homes to murder our grandparents for money; this isn't a wayward comment on an earnings call, these unhinged mutherfuckers had bonus tiers for nursing homes that kept hospital visits low at any cost. In a just world, folks should absolutely go to fucking prison for this homicidal bullshit, but we do not live in a just world and since our entire society is built to service capitalist extraction and the rich people who do it, I'm not gonna hold my breath while I wait for justice.

What I will say however is bougie maggot bootlickers can kiss my puckered asshole, because you can't stop reality from being real, or folks getting killed for profit by corporations, from calling that what it is: murder. The fact is that no company in the history of capitalist society ever created any wealth; they merely extract it from our shared environment and labor class folks like you and I. If a company like UnitedHealth figures out that letting your grandma die is good for their share prices, that's exactly what they're going to do; don't let disingenuous muppets who benefit from this system tell you it's too complicated for you to understand, and this practice isn't precisely what you think it is. These folks have made killing us for money at various speeds, a profitable industry; the least they could do is stop pissing in our faces when we point out that CEOs and investors have more bodies on themselves than you'll find in a pauper's cemetery.

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